That isn't a choice for me, Bobert, because I'm a Canadian. I watch from the outside and I cannot participate in your political system nor would I want to.

GfS is an American...so GfS can participate in your political system, but if GfS has absolutely no faith left in either the Democrats or the Republicans, then why should he/she actively support either one of them? The way your political system is run, no 3rd party ever has a chance, because big media will either ignore a 3rd party or demonize it or make it into a running joke.

People's votes are mainly shaped through their exposure to the mass media (in the case of those who are in any way prepared to be persuaded) (in the case of those whose minds are all made up, their views are simply hardened by the mass media).

So it's a closed circle, and a vicious one. And there appears to be no escape through normal political avenues, as far as I can see.

GfS is not being a disloyal American by refusing to believe in either one of those big 2 corrupt parties. People who do believe in either one of them are simply going through the old habitual motions and guaranteeing that they will remain helpless in the face of the present ruling system, which plays "Good Cop -Bad Cop" on the voters by manipulating them and dividing through those 2 parties.

It's not a conspiracy. It's simply an established way of doing business and maintaining corporate profit and power, and it works quite effectively...to the benefit of the very rich...to the detriment of the rest of you.

I have no political solution for you, Bobert, not any more than I would have had a political solution for Germans in 1940. I simply comment on what I see happening, and it isn't good.

You say, "even if the sky is falling, we should have some level of hope".

For sure! And I do have hope. My hope is that I can still achieve good things in my own life, my personal life, my own achievements, my relationships with people. That is where I place my hope...NOT in corrupt political parties and a corrupted political system. I have never worked for any political party or belonged to one, because the years have shown me what I can expect from them. Nothing, that's what. I expect much, however, from myself, from life, and from the good people around me. That is where I have my level of hope...NOT in backing some phony political party which is nothing but a tool of large special interests.